Religious Philosophical Seminar

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RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHICAL SEMINAR was an informal union of Leningrad creative intelligentsia who were interested in the study of religion and Russian religious philosophy. The seminar was first held in 1974, its organizer and head was philosopher T.M. Goricheva. Participants of the seminar (literary men, philosophers and artists) studied the history of formation of the Christian doctrine, held creative discussions on topical problems of religious life (Christianity and Ethics, Religion and Humanism, Christianity and culture etc.). Up to 100 people gathered at the meetings held in the flats of seminar participants. Poet V.B. Krivulin, theologian E. A. Pazukhin, biologist L.A. Rudkevich made reports, representatives of various confessions, and reporters from other cities visited the meetings. The seminar participants established contacts with religious circles abroad. The typewritten underground journal 37 (1976-81, 21 issues) became an official publication of the seminar. In 1980, under pressure from the KGB Goricheva emigrated and the seminars discontinued.

References: Пазухин Е. А. Русская религиозная философия в подполье // Преображение: Христиан. религ.-филос., религ.-обществ. и лит. альм. 1992. Вып. 1. С. 16-24.

V. E. Dolinin. Goricheva Tatyana Mikhailovna
Krivulin Viktor Borisovich
Pazukhin Evgeny Alexandrovich
Rudkevich L.A.
Пазухин Е. А. Русская религиозная философия в подполье // Преображение: Христиан. религ.-филос., религ.-обществ. и лит. альм., 1992 1974